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SubjectRe: std VGA text console funnies
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:41PM -0400, Andrew J. Anderson wrote:
> > I've got an old ET-3000 based VGA card (256k, I believe) that exhibits
> > strange behavior under 2.1.115. I boot into the default text mode, and it
> > appears that any time the screen scrolls quickly the video memory gets
> > some corruption (weird characters appear, ddoouubbllee characters, and
> > attribute changes (flashing, solid background, etc)).
>
> This is a shot in the dark, but try adding #define SLOW_VGA to
> /drivers/video/vgacon.c

That helped quite a bit, actually. I still see some corruption, but not
nearly as much as before.

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